Staat = state. As in English, this can either be one of the sudivisions of a federal country, or a country itself. The first sort are sometimes called "Bundesstaat" to dis…tinguish. For example " California is ein Bundes staat an der WestkÃ¼ste der USA ".

Stentorton = stentorian sound/tone/note (extremely loud and powerful sound/tone/note) From the Greek myth of Stentor, whose voice was said to have been as loud and as power…ful as the voices of 50 men combined